Adira August – writer
If you’re with a big publisher, your critique partner should be your editor. But you don’t have that. So the first lesson is the most difficult: FIND A CRITIQUE PARTNER.
This is not a reader. This is not your friend or family or guy at the bar. This has to be a writer. And besides being a writer, they have to be as good as you are – or close. Not a lot better, because that’s a teacher or mentor. Not a lot worse, they won’t have anything to offer.
I am not here to tell you how to write. But I found out a lot about negotiating the wilds of indiedom I’m happy to share with you.
Adulthood is emailing ‘sorry for the delayed response!’
back and forth until one of you dies. — writer Marissa Miller
A sexy mm short-read about a trip to the mall, a service elevator, and a red-hot guy with a big set of keys.
I wanted to write a series about going from two bucks and change for my 1st royalty payment to $2800 for one month in two years.
I WAS A COMMIE-PINKO-AMERICA-HATING-HIPPIE-SLUT when I was young. Until I was a FASCIST-BIGOTED-PIG when I became a cop. What the hell, at least I stopped
